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Date:      Fri, 26 Dec 1997 05:51:57 -0700
From:      "Jay Greever" <losttime@primenet.com>
To:        <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   FreeBSD CRASHED MY COMPUTER--PLEASE RESPOND ASAP IF POSSIBLE...
Message-ID:  <199712270052.RAA06393@smtp02.primenet.com>

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when i made a boot disk for FreeBSD, i made it like it said, then i placed
it in my A: drive, rebooted, then this message came up:
------------------------------(THIS IS NOT EXACTLY AS IT WAS PRINTED ON MY
SCREEN)--
 	PRESS F5 for HELP ... Disk 2
	
	...F?

	BOOT:
------------------------------(THIS IS NOT EXACTLY AS IT WAS PRINTED ON MY
SCREEN)--
this is the general screen that it printed on my computer, it wouldnt let
me do anything, so i removed the disk and rebooted my computer.

then it would not let me boot at all, so i used a Win95 BOOT disk to access
my hard drives, when i then noticed that the FreeBSD BOOT disk must have
repartitioned my hard drives, it made them empty, and unaccessable from
DOS. the system was in some kind of weird characters, not in ALPHA form,
(i.e. alphabet letters).

because of it, i lost all my personal information, files, and even Windows
95 and the FreeBSD files...i then had to low-level format my hard drives
just to get FDISK to recognize them as Hard Drives and not removable media
or write-protected media.

could you please help me out by telling me what happened, like why it did
that to my hard drives...

please email me back ASAP so i can figure out what to do now

sincerely,

Jay Greever, (aka--ThE inFAMouS LostTime)



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